eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well? Some college courses simply provide a curved score for students to lower the failure rate or to stratify student performance. Students may choose to what degree they engage with an assignment to earn an A, B, or C, for example.

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Grades Teachers Instructors Exams 263

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose. One student may be an incredible public speaker but may wrestle with written assignments. As educators, we can show our students that failure isnt the opposite of success–its a step toward it.

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Failure Math Achievement Beliefs 307

eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In college, assignments were purposeful, designed to deepen my understanding of the material rather than simply reinforce rote memorization. These assignments provided valuable opportunities to fail, seek help, and ultimately grow from the experience. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning.

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Failure Assignments Education Secondary Education 170

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2019

Whether it’s failing to complete work at home, not turning in assignments, or avoiding school altogether, students with anxiety display an affect often confused with disinterest and complacency. As educators struggle to understand anxiety and its implications for student success in schools, so too do the parents of these students.

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Failure Education Students English 261

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

It’s especially true when it comes to writing assignments: With poor writing skills, students can’t deal with essays and other homework the way they need to get a good grade. ESL students need stellar writing skills to pass exams and language tests or enter the university.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 278

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

The material feels irrelevant or unvaluable to students One of the primary reasons students cheat is that they dont perceive the material being tested as valuable or relevant to their lives. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? This approach reduces the fear of failure and minimizes the need for cheating.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 199

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. When students weren’t passing these tests, their self-confidence was diminished and it affected their willingness and effort during difficult tasks.

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Essay Failure Writing Students 189

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

Jason Glass said: I have an assignment for you. That “those” kids “need” a test-prep education so they can get higher test scores and close our “achievement gap.”. In my book, there is no greater moral failure for us as professional educators. The soft bigotry of low expectations.” via [link]. I love this so much.

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Testing Failure Achievement History 91

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S.,

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Education Internet Interdisciplinary Testing 297

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here are some you can look into–and all online: Easy CBM Educreations –video a whiteboard explanation of how students are completing a task (app) Edulastic –formative assessments; work on any devices (app) Flip — record a video question from your desktop; add attachments; students respond from the app with their answer Flubaroo (app) (..)

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Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 158

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. The majority of my students work hard but test poorly, though a small percentage of them are unmotivated.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 160

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In fact, the authors made the surprising conclusion that many instances of flipped learning involve more time spent on passive learning than the traditional lecture model, because some professors both assign short video lectures and spend some time in class lecturing to prepare for class activities.

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

They have a hypothesis of what they think will help students learn, and they’re going to test it out and then learn from it and revise. Much of what surprised me most makes up a lot of the final chapter, which is on failure. We give students really high-stakes assignments and assessments with very few opportunities to do them.

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Art Science Teaching Failure 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Two weeks into the school year, I have students who are still struggling with the diagnostic test, which is designed to see where the students are in reading comprehension and writing for 11th grade literature. This particular diagnostic is meant to mimic the Georgia state milestone test they will be taking at the end of the semester.

Failure 111

Failure Learning Testing Assignments 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes.

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Exams English Math Instructors 168

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution As children age and learning shifts from learning to read to reading to learn, support can mean the difference between learning from reading or suffering sustained academic failure. They also show improved assessment and high-stakes test scores.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 163

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Once they sign up for courses, an assigned mentor is supposed to check in on them regularly—sometimes even weekly—through a call or text or video meeting. In practice, that meant each Monday, text messages were sent reminding students about assignments due that week, along with estimates for how much time each task would likely take.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 198

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You enter and on the board is your first assignment: create something—a drawing, a model of a house, a sketch of a new product, a sculpture. And tells you your next assignment is to pick up the pieces (including yourself) and make something new. You’re not taking English or history or pre-calculus; the sign on the door says “Obstacles.”

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Education Schools Art History 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Ken Bain, the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do,” talks about this a lot—this idea that failure is a part of learning. So there should be failure in all of our classes. I learned things that] I would never have found out—these things about my students that are kind of ancillary to the assignment. One quick example.

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Failure Feedback Students Exams 145

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Your child has three missing assignments.” What he found was that the right messages, delivered at the right time, can boost attendance and reduce course failure, as results published in The Journal of Human Resources in 2019 showed. And it will let him test and refine other ideas for interventions to support students.

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Failure Students Assignments Beliefs 112

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Instructional technology may take the form of software that can be used to complete homework assignments, or serve as a primary content-delivery and assessment system in fully online or blended online classes. Online videos (e.g.

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Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 155

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved. AWS Educate has released cloud badges for the following services: RoboMaker makes it easier to develop, test, and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale.

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Education Intelligence Failure Testing 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. These will be a summative review of everything you want them to know on the topic. Students love this game.

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Activities Learning Art Attention 171

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on. Top teachers know excelling is less about assigning a grade than what is learned. I had a 4th grader once.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 132

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Students are grouped by academic need so teachers can review topics with struggling students while the rest of the class works at their own pace, often on a playlist of exercises assigned by Canvas (grades 6-12) or Google Classroom (K-5). Research shows that for low-income students, this can be the difference between success and failure.

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Blended Learning Learning Elementary School Elementary School 145

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. Students love this game.

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Activities Learning Attention Failure 174

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

I do not understand how to do assignments.” As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? I solved everyone’s problems.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. Those kinds of comments support the fixed mindset.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns. The excitement comes from the possibility of both success and failure.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 331

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

I found myself sitting in a classroom, staring at a test I couldnt answer. But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. Instead, I provide rich feedback.

Grades 97

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 97

Teach Thought

JULY 17, 2025

Can you promote a certain culture there strategically, or does it just happen, the seemingly random product of the student roster assignments mixed with your personality as a teacher? A math problem, maker project, formal debate, reading test–whatever you’ve modeled for them and then helped them do.

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Beliefs Culture Students Critical Thinking 98

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

In my work with kids, if I’m going to get a 12-year-old to talk about something they feel vulnerable about — not reading fluently, failing the test, not understanding the homework — then I need to be both vulnerable and honest with them. He could use a calculator during tests, but he had to learn a strategy for tracking those negative signs.

Math 116

Math Testing Learning Failure 116

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

I do not understand how to do assignments.” As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? I solved everyone’s problems.

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I firmly believe our failure to teach our children across all the dimensions of wellness has left them unprepared to tackle life's challenges in and out of the classroom. We dont hold our schools accountable to a high standard of excellence beyond standardized testing and uniform learning standards.

Middle School 114

Middle School Middle School Students Coaching 114

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. Those kinds of comments support the fixed mindset.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98